Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Quick Tortellini and Kielbasa via The Wife

Special guest post from The Wife:

My mom and I have an arrangement on
Tuesday nights. The Husband stays late at school to run game club,
so my mom brings the Spud home at 4, and then one of us prepares
dinner while the other one watches the Spud. We alternate dinner
responsibilities from week to week. This past Tuesday, it was my
mom’s turn to make dinner. Around 1:45, I received an email from
her saying she wasn’t feeling well and needed to bow out of dinner.
This left me with a dilemma. Sure, we could have leftovers, but
that didn’t sound appealing to me, and I was certain the Husband
wouldn’t be too excited about it either. As I sat at my desk,
waiting for my students to locate their homework, I remembered a
package of kielbasa I had seen hiding in the back of the freezer. I
typed “quick kielbasa recipe” into Google, and the first hit was
Quick Tortellini and Kielbasa. With just five ingredients (all of
which we had in some form or another), I decided to give it a try.

Mercifully, the Spud decided to take a
nap on the way home from Grandma’s, so I was able to throw dinner
together before she woke up. She even got to taste-test it before
her dad got home. Her red face and watery eyes attested to the fact
that it was a bit spicier than I had intended…but she continued to
shovel it in. I figured that was a good sign.

½ lb. cooked kielbasa or Polish
sausage, cut into ¼ inch slices (14 oz. is kinda like ½ pound,
right? No, but if I’m going to open a package, I’m using all of
it.)

1 (26 oz.) can chunky-style tomato
pasta sauce (I didn’t have a 26 oz. can of pasta sauce, but that
wasn’t a big deal. Kielbasa and pasta sauce sounded gross.
Instead, I went with 1 14.5 oz. can of low sodium petite diced
tomatoes and 1 10 oz. can of diced tomatoes with green chiles. I
know, I know… 14.5 + 10 is 24.5, not 26. Look, I’m an English
teacher, okay?)